NCT00746408

Tailored Internet Information Supply for Patients

Study of the Quality of Self-Diagnosis by Headache Patients Getting Tailored Internet Information

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Health & Life Sciences University, Tryol · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Medical expert systems in combination with portal searching meta-search engines are exploited to provide reliable patient-tailored information. A prototype of a web-based information system has been developed and is to be evaluated. Its aim is to answer the decisive question whether expert system guided internet meta-search provides a better information supply for patients seeking health information online then this is possible by using ordinary search engines or health portals. The research does neither investigate the influence of ethical nor legal aspects of internet health information supply.

Conditions

• Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Expert system guided tailored information	The prototype is realised by a web-based information system. The HTML web-interface guides the user through the search process by querying the information demand. This is done by an integrated expert system. The expert system uses a rule based inference to determine an internal diagnosis. Based on this internal diagnosis the system searches quality labeled websites and presents relevant information to the user.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2008-09-04
• Last updated: 2009-06-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria